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Though her work did not sell, she continued to create sculptures, which were housed in her studio at
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Though credited with introducing a modern school of sculpture to South Africa during her early career, she was often criticized for her use of avant-garde images. Her choice of
African subject matter and her use of sharp, angular forms and distortion of limbs to depict her subjects shocked the
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Stainbank collection is generally regarded as the largest body of work by a single artist in South Africa to have remained intact. The collection is housed at the Mary Stainbank Memorial Gallery at Coedmore, the original Stainbank family estate, where the family settled in the 1880s.
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